Misplaced Pages

Revision as of 20:38, 29 November 2005

Welcome!

Hello, Stifle! Welcome to Misplaced Pages. Thank you for your contributions. I hope you like the place and decide to stay. Here are a few good links for newcomers:

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I hope you enjoy editing here and being a Wikipedian! By the way, you can sign your name on Talk and vote pages using three tildes, like this: ~~~. Four tildes (~~~~) will produce your name and the current date. You should always sign talk pages, but not articles. If you have any questions, see the help pages, add a question to the village pump or ask me on my talk page. Again, welcome! Ann Heneghan 19:28, 20 October 2005 (UTC)

Dendroica

Hi. I see that you think this page needs to be wikified. Please can you tell me what is wrong with it, and I will fix it. It seems to me to be similar to other bird articles. Of course these may need to be wikified as well. Smallweed 09:49, 14 November 2005 (UTC)

To wikify a page is to remove all HTML markup tags that have a Misplaced Pages equivalent and replace them with Misplaced Pages tags. In the page that I tagged for wikifying, there were several <i> tags that should be replaced by '' either side of the text. See also

Hope this clarifies things. Stifle 14:57, 14 November 2005 (UTC)

Craic origins?

Dia duit, Stifle. I've been looking for a fluent Irish speaker (mine is so poor it's shameful) who can give me the origins of craic, especially as to simple things such as whether it derives from Irish or from the English "crack," etc. As I live in the States it's harder to find that kind of information, and especially people who speak Irish well enough to be able to answer such a thing. Anyway, do you know? Your opinion is most welcome on Talk:Craic, or on my talk page. Thanks so much for listening. Slán agat, --Blackcap | talk 04:02, 16 November 2005 (UTC)

Note: some of the problem I'm having is whether or not "craic" is actually Irish, so just about any information you have will probably be helpful :). Blackcap | talk 17:02, 16 November 2005 (UTC)

WikiMarkup

Hello again, Stifle; I couldn't help but notice that in your post above you used an external link to link to a Misplaced Pages page (like this: ). Two things: one is that, when doing an external link, only one bracket on each side is needed to complete the link (i.e. Wiki Markup). The second is that to link to articles within Misplaced Pages (specifically the ones whose URLs begin with http://en.wikipedia.org/ ) all you need to do is link the name of the page within two double square brackets (therefore, in our example, you would type ], resulting in Misplaced Pages:How to edit a page#Wiki markup. Just thought you'd like to know; if you have any more questions, please ask. Yours, Blackcap | talk 07:07, 16 November 2005 (UTC)

Thanks for that, something had given me the belief somehow that you couldn't do that for links with a # in them. Stifle 21:28, 16 November 2005 (UTC)

Sure, my pleasure. You may want to take a look at Misplaced Pages:Tutorial: it's a fairly thorough and helpful bit of text to help you get started around here. You'll pick the rest up on the way. Don't hesitate to ask me any questions you may have, I'm more than happy to help. Take care, Blackcap | talk 23:25, 16 November 2005 (UTC)

Articles for deletion/Durmus Kumdereli

Hi. I've translated this article into English. I don't know whether you fully understood it in its original version - I see you speak some German - but regardless, as the article is now in English, transwiking to the German Misplaced Pages is inappropriate and I would appreciate your thoughts on its suitability now. It has nothing to do with Germany or Germans as far as I can tell. --Last Malthusian 13:21, 25 November 2005 (UTC)

Thanks for fixing those stubs

Thanks for making the stubs I created more specific - I looked through the list of stub categories and was amazed at how large it was that I couldn't find any sections the pages could go with - I have no idea how you do it. Cowman 00:46, 27 November 2005 (UTC)

Misplaced Pages:Articles for deletion/Canadian Professional Hockey League

Please explain what makes a nonexistant ice hockey league notable and relevant. User:Zoe| 00:37, 28 November 2005 (UTC)

Please reconsider your vote. User:Zoe| 03:05, 28 November 2005 (UTC)

Misplaced Pages:Articles for deletion/Shri Shyam Chalisa

You have requested that this page be translated. I wanted to let you know that it is a Hindu bhajan (a type of prayer) and as wikipedia is not a prayer book, it is totally out of order. Please reconsider your vote.--May the Force be with you! Shreshth91($ |-| r 3 $ |-| t |-|) 10:26, 29 November 2005 (UTC)

astrogation

This article appears to be a dictionary entry, not an encyclopedia article.

That's absurd!! Should all articles that are stubs in their early stages get labeled this way by kneejerk reflex? That's the only reason I can see why you would propose that there should be no encyclopedia article on astrogation. Obviously it's potentially the topic of a long factual article. Michael Hardy 20:38, 29 November 2005 (UTC)